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Classes offered for Spring 2024!

It is time to register for Spring 2024 courses. Remember, you can register now to ensure your seat in a class, but pay your tuition bill in January 2024. Spring 2024 courses are:

- - LDT 415 Systematic Design of Instruction (required)
  - LDT 467 Web Tech and Learning (required)
  - LDT 527 Design of Constructivist Learning Environments (required)
  - LDT 832 E-Learning
  - LDT 867 (new!) Games and Online Communities (Biennial, even year Spring; alternates with 824)

- To help you with your planning, here’s our upcoming course offering list for 2024:
  - Summer 2024
    - LDT 440: Tech Integration
    - LDT 843 Tech for Good and Evil (SARI, required)
    - LDT 832 E-Learning
  - Fall 2024
    - LDT 415 Systematic Design of Instruction (required)
    - LDT 527 Design of Constructivist Learning Environments (required)
    - LDT 550 Design Studio (revised in FAll 2023)
    - LDT 581 Learning Theories (Biennial, even year Fall)
    - LDT 505 Mobile Computing (Biennial, even year Fall; alternates with 566)
    - LDT 843 Tech for Good and Evil (SARI, required)

Farewell from Dr. Kirby

Dear LDT Online Students:

The past 6.5 years has offered me the opportunity to engage with amazing students who come to the Learning, Design, and Technology Online Programs from many different professions, locations, and walks of life. I’ve had the gift of being a professor and advisor of people who make positive change in their workplace, community, school, and family. I’ve written many letters of reference and given many reference phone calls. And I’ve been able to advise many on advancing their career paths to new opportunities for influencing education and training systems in need of their attention. I have enjoyed working with our committed and conscientious students and will revel in their accomplishments as they begin to stack in the upcoming years.

It is also time for me to grow into a new career path, and I am excited for my next steps.

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Certificate Student Advisor Change

headshot of Dr. ChanMin Kim

Students enrolled in our Postbaccalaureate Certificates of Educational Technology Integration, e-Learning Design, and Teaching and Learning Online in K-12 Settings have a new assigned academic advisor as of Friday, August 20, at 5:00 PM. Succeeding Dr. Kirby in the role of faculty advisor to all certificate students in the LDT Online programs will be Dr. ChanMin Kim [Read more…]

Fall 2021 Start

Welcome to the Fall 2021 term! For our incoming students students, this marks the start of something new, and we welcome you. For our continuing students, we applaud your perseverance and we are ready to support you as you press forward with your career development.

Fall 2021 Courses

LDT Online courses begin the morning of Monday, August 23rd, 2021. All courses are delivered via Canvas, found at https://psu.instructure.com. If you visit Canvas prior to August 23rd, you likely will not see your Fall 2021 courses, but they will become visible on August 23rd.

We have adjusted our course offerings in order to align with the current needs of our students. Here’s the updated lineup for Fall:

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Fall 2021 Registration Update

Greetings students, one and all! We hope that you are having a comfortable, safe, and relaxing summertime—either now, or sometime soon. The summer is proceeding quickly—don’t forget to take time for yourself. At the time of posting there are only 6 weeks remaining before the Fall 2021 courses begin on Monday, August 23.

We have just admitted a healthy number of new students to our degree and certificate programs. We welcome these new students, and we are encouraged that many students are returning their focus to their professional development and preparation for the ever-changing trends in education and training.

With the arrival of our new students, current (continuing) students are reminded that Fall 2021 course registration has been available to them since April 12, 2021. [Read more…]

LDT 566 Course Title Update

We have updated the title of one of our courses. [Read more…]

Fall 2021 Registration Launch

Hello to our students across this beautiful Earth! We hope that you are well and that you continue to persevere through the challenges of our era. We are regularly refreshed by the stories of our students and the effort they are investing in their studies. We can’t wait to see their impacts on the world of education and training.

The registration cycle for Fall 2021 students has started. According to the university’s calendar for course enrollment, [Read more…]

New Course Fall 2021: Learning Technologies for Good and Evil

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Many courses about learning technology focus on how it can be harnessed for good. LDT 843 – Learning Technologies for Good and Evil starts from the assumption that good outcomes of new technology for education and society are never guaranteed but rather that the use of technology for learning, or any other purpose, always entails ethical tensions—a struggle between “good” and “evil.” The course provides a practical angle on these issues for learning technology designers, educators, and researchers. [Read more…]

LDT Online and Coping with COVID-19

The expectations for the month of April 2020 have now changed. No matter the age, the family situation, the employment, or the health concerns, the next 30 days for the USA, and the world, will largely be affected by what we each do in our actions and behaviors. If we can physically distance ourselves, we should do that. If you are essential personnel and you must be on the move, then please be safe. And with grocery trips taking on a new significance and level of planning, we now must temporarily think carefully about everything we do.

While much of the world is being introduced to online learning, our LDT Online Programs continue to deliver its courses and services to students. [Read more…]

Fall 2020 Course Registration

Our modern world is experiencing an unprecedented amount of change in a startlingly short amount of time. The faculty and staff who support our LDT Students are hopeful that you and you loved ones are practicing physical distancing, washing your hands often, and remaining at home as much as possible.

The good news is that our online programs continue. Whether you need a sense of normalcy, a distraction, or the encouragement to continue moving forward with your career-related professional development, our faculty are offering our courses with no planned interruptions to the Summer 2020 or Fall 2020 terms.

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